Ten years on, Hurricane Katrina's scars endure for black New Orleans

A man walks past an abandoned house in the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, July 31, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A decade after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans seems to have found its rhythm again: the French Quarter is choked with tourists, construction cranes tower over the skyline, and hipsters bike to cafes in gentrifying neighbourhoods.

But recovery has been uneven in the city, which took the brunt of the 2005 storm that killed more than 1,800 people and was the costliest in U.S. history.